Author: Tisaranee Gunasekara
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Fears for Sri Lanka's outspoken Leader
"It didn't mean a huge change in policy or editorial stand," she says, fresh from the main weekly meeting.
The new owner, with a 72% stake, is a businessman, Asanga Seneviratne, who is president of the national rugby union and appointed the president's son as captain of the national team. The other share remains in the hands of Lasantha's brother, Lal.
Ms Perera says Mr Seneviratne has no editorial input and the paper has lost none of its radicalism despite the buyout.
"On the judiciary, we've been critical of the government stand," she says, referring to a government campaign to impeach the chief justice.
"On the prisons [the death of 27 prisoners amid a riot last month], no paper has taken the strong stance we took Any issue affecting the people will get a voice."
Indeed, recent issues have contained some rigorous articles on the jail violence, quoting prisoners' relatives as saying some of the deaths were summary executions; a detailed report on the mood in the northern town of Jaffna, a subject most papers ignore; and investigative articles about official bodies.
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By Tisaranee Gunasekara &#;
“&#;to yourself a thing shameful but bringing joy to the enemy.” (The Iliad)
On January 8th , Lankans voted not only to elect a new president but also to transform governance. The mandate Maithripala Sirisena received two years ago was not a personal one; he was the symbol of the political culture he promised to build, one which was more accountable to the people, less self-indulgent, more democratic.
The transformational change President Sirisena was expected to work towards was fourfold – resuscitation of democracy, a more even-handed economy, a governance less corrupt and more law-abiding and reconciliation (inclusive of justice and a political settlement). From South to North, people wanted an end not just to the Rajapaksas but also to the Rajapaksa way of doing things and being in the world.
In its first year the new administration lived up to this promise. There were negatives, particularly the Central Bank bond issue, but the positives were more numerous and weighty. On January 8th , it was possible to look at the past year with a degree of satisfaction and look towards the coming year with a degree of hope.
turned that h
An Inflection Point in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka knows political turbulence. The island nation has survived, among other calamities, a twenty-five-year civil war, two insurrections, and pogroms. Yet the two-plus years leading to this past September’s presidential election were unprecedented even by these standards.
The crisis began in the spring of , when the country ran out of fuel, cooking gas, and milk. Soon ordinary life was unravelling: twelve-hour power cuts; nonfunctional schools, hospitals, and factories; an inflation rate second only to that of Zimbabwe. Over 80 percent of the population struggled to find sufficient food, per a World Food Programme survey.“Without gas, without kerosene oil, we can’t do anything,” a part-time chauffer in Colombo lamented to Reuters. “Last option what? Without food we are going to die. That will happen, hundred percent.”
That spring of want gave way to a summer of fury. In July a popular uprising overthrew the main author of the crisis: the incumbent president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. At the presidential election, Rajapaksa had been the overwhelming choice of the majority Sinhala community. His impr
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Fears for Sri Lanka's outspoken Leader
"It didn't mean a huge change in policy or editorial stand," she says, fresh from the main weekly meeting.
The new owner, with a 72% stake, is a businessman, Asanga Seneviratne, who is president of the national rugby union and appointed the president's son as captain of the national team. The other share remains in the hands of Lasantha's brother, Lal.
Ms Perera says Mr Seneviratne has no editorial input and the paper has lost none of its radicalism despite the buyout.
"On the judiciary, we've been critical of the government stand," she says, referring to a government campaign to impeach the chief justice.
"On the prisons [the death of 27 prisoners amid a riot last month], no paper has taken the strong stance we took Any issue affecting the people will get a voice."
Indeed, recent issues have contained some rigorous articles on the jail violence, quoting prisoners' relatives as saying some of the deaths were summary executions; a detailed report on the mood in the northern town of Jaffna, a subject most papers ignore; and investigative articles about official bodies.
S
Blog
By Tisaranee Gunasekara &#;
“&#;to yourself a thing shameful but bringing joy to the enemy.” (The Iliad)
On January 8th , Lankans voted not only to elect a new president but also to transform governance. The mandate Maithripala Sirisena received two years ago was not a personal one; he was the symbol of the political culture he promised to build, one which was more accountable to the people, less self-indulgent, more democratic.
The transformational change President Sirisena was expected to work towards was fourfold – resuscitation of democracy, a more even-handed economy, a governance less corrupt and more law-abiding and reconciliation (inclusive of justice and a political settlement). From South to North, people wanted an end not just to the Rajapaksas but also to the Rajapaksa way of doing things and being in the world.
In its first year the new administration lived up to this promise. There were negatives, particularly the Central Bank bond issue, but the positives were more numerous and weighty. On January 8th , it was possible to look at the past year with a degree of satisfaction and look towards the coming year with a degree of hope.
turned that h
An Inflection Point in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka knows political turbulence. The island nation has survived, among other calamities, a twenty-five-year civil war, two insurrections, and pogroms. Yet the two-plus years leading to this past September’s presidential election were unprecedented even by these standards.
The crisis began in the spring of , when the country ran out of fuel, cooking gas, and milk. Soon ordinary life was unravelling: twelve-hour power cuts; nonfunctional schools, hospitals, and factories; an inflation rate second only to that of Zimbabwe. Over 80 percent of the population struggled to find sufficient food, per a World Food Programme survey.“Without gas, without kerosene oil, we can’t do anything,” a part-time chauffer in Colombo lamented to Reuters. “Last option what? Without food we are going to die. That will happen, hundred percent.”
That spring of want gave way to a summer of fury. In July a popular uprising overthrew the main author of the crisis: the incumbent president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. At the presidential election, Rajapaksa had been the overwhelming choice of the majority Sinhala community. His impr
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